Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

For startups the early stage funding landscape looks like this: Step 1: The Pre-seed round – you raise $100-$750K. In the seed round you have an early product and by the end you’ve found product/market fit and understand the scale of what you’re building and the levers that you can pull to accelerate growth.

Cofounder 429

Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

Acquisition 103

Acquisition Cost Customer Entrepreneur 103

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Aug-15: Head of Sales (growth team). We spent a year building a solid sales and growth team before we even expanded our product team. See Also: A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription (SaaS) Business. Cost of Acquisition (CAC): The total cost of acquiring a user through a given channel.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. ” The name is important for discoverability , whether in Google searches (10% to 50%+ of site traffic, depending on the category), the App Store (especially painful in iOS6) and other text-based discovery channels. viral video.

Naming 84

Naming Startup Social Media RSS 84

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. A Complete Guide to Forecasting Sales for Your Monthly Subscription Business.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

Glossier runs an exclusive Slack channel and invites top customers to discuss all things beauty-related with the company. A massive seventy percent of Glossier’s online sales come from peer referrals. This is hardly a surprise: a viral-friendly experience and Instagram aesthetic heavily inform the Glossier marketing campaign.

Marketing 90

Marketing Social Media Cofounder Design 90

Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

As an early stage investor, should you pay up for team or traction? When you are thinking about joining an early stage company, how should you be evaluating the risk of the overall company? How should you be weighing the presence of a great founding team vs. early signs of traction? The Case for Traction.

B2B 28

B2B Early Stage Distribution Software Review 28

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. How iPad Magazine Sales Stack Up [REP.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

How to Pick a New Lead Generation Channel written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. To make sure everyone is on the same page, here’s what we define a marketing channel as: A marketing channel is a way of speaking to your customers. Some examples of marketing channels are: SEO.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Channel B2B Early Stage 28

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

How to Pick a New Lead Generation Channel written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. To make sure everyone is on the same page, here’s what we define a marketing channel as: A marketing channel is a way of speaking to your customers. Some examples of marketing channels are: SEO. photo credit: 123rf.com.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Channel B2B Early Stage 28

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

How to Pick a New Lead Generation Channel written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. To make sure everyone is on the same page, here’s what we define a marketing channel as: A marketing channel is a way of speaking to your customers. Some examples of marketing channels are: SEO. photo credit: 123rf.com.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Channel B2B Early Stage 28

View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

When you are thinking about joining an early stage company, how should you be evaluating the risk of the overall company? How should you be weighing the presence of a great founding team versus early signs of traction? monetizing a large audience or moving from end-user SaaS to enterprise sales).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage B2B Distribution Early Stage 120

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? For a startup, having great sales DNA is a wonderful asset. But here’s where a truly great sales artist comes in.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

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Programming 86

Programming Startup Technical Review Software Review 86

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. If the viral coefficient is 0.9, Dont scale.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

So we know from this that the problem is not the quality of those sales people. They also know precisely how much additional traffic will need to be generated to reach the growth targets, and how many sales people are needed at a given productivity level, etc. SolidWorks 2: The best VAR management program in the world?

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Be prepared to cross the desert - SaaS requires R&D and sales expense up front for a multi-year stream of revenue, so it demands enough investment capital to fund 4+ years of runway. Posted by Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

Angel Investor 80

Angel Investor Startup San Francisco Social Media 80

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

B y definition, early stage startups don’t have lots of money and resources. They hope to raise awareness through viral marketing and word of mouth, since participating in professional industry events can be a pretty expensive ordeal when you take into account hotels, flights, tickets, etc.

Finder 128

Finder Startup Social Network Mobile 128

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

(You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies. Here are a few typical models and some of the points I would find interesting to highlight: Enterprise sales (e.g., content development) to generate inbound interest.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Churn Rate Silicon Valley Engineer 48

sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

While those initial links will be very useful in sending traffic your way in the early stage, they can be massive useful later by allowing search engines to find your site and gain authority and link value. Aaron Wall, SEO Book Add a free feature which is accessible, useful, and spreads virally. Pure brilliance.

Bootstrapping 49

Bootstrapping SEO Startup Widget 49

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

Since email is so important as an acquisition channel (and since likely nothing else works for them), I choose one of my three favorite email marketing metrics , CTDR. B2B / Enterprise Sales: Salesforce. Don’t accept the excuse oh but all the sales come via phone or I convert at industry events or our buyers are old school!

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Scalable Startup

MARCH 20, 2011

Viral growth. A strong internal growth plan focuses on coordinated, timed, manipulated maneuvers, paying for press releases, making sales priority 1. Old school internal growth strategies are still vital to the plan: marketing, advertising, marcom, sales, work ethic, camaraderie, common vision, right attitudes, belief in the leader.

Viral 26

Viral Social Media Matching Channel 26